Cultivating Differences
Subtitle: Symbolic Boundaries and the Making of Inequality
Contributors: Michele Lamont (Editor); Marcel Fournier (Editor)
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: January 15, 1993
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 364
ISBN-13: 9780226468143
Subjects: Cultural studies; Social groups & communities; Sociology - General; Social Science / Sociology / General; Social Science; Sociology; Culture; Equality; Social status; Social structure; Symbolic interactionism
First sentence: If there is one fundamental proposition on which sociologists of culture agree, it is that, far from forming a unique society, humanity is made up of social groups that are differentiated by their practices, beliefs, and institutions.